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Thread #115578   Message #2269672
Posted By: dwditty
22-Feb-08 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Playing for Change: Peace Thru Music
Subject: Review: Playing for Change - DVD
Now THIS is a film about music. In this award winning documentary, the filmaker takes us to the streets of New Orleans, New York, and Los Angeles...literally. The film examines some of the street musicians in each city. While I consider myself a musician, there are a million distractions and a heap of life's trappings that keep me from experiencing music to the level that these players do. All the music in the film was recorded live in the street. As they travel to different locations, the film makers record some percussion, then in another place a guitar over it, then more intruments until the whole sone is finishied. The film in inspirational, emotional, and most of all, very real.

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Btw, the film is available through Amazon (about $10)...don't forget to go into amazon through mudcat.

dw